Word: resorted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sighed. He would resort to his perennial remedy for his perennial nostalgia. Tonight he would wander up to the Geographic Institute and see Sacha Guitry in "Perles de la Couronne." He would pretend he was in his little "theatre du quartier." He would sit back in the beguiling darkness and, full of the "light sane joy of life," he would wink knowingly at some bespectacled Radcliffe girl...
...elections bear an ominous look? Are all democracies expected to go on a jag every generation or so ? Do Viewers-with-Alarm expect Federal finances to go haywire ? Failing to have his way with the Supreme Court, the Executive Department and now the Senate, is the President expected to resort to a putsch to perpetuate his policies? Are the Nazis suspected of a plan to sabotage American aid to France and England when Der Tag arrives...
...like Thomas Mann and "realists" like Columnist Dorothy Thompson were that very day whipping it up. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York was saying: "All men of sense know that there is a point beyond which injustice and aggression cannot be permitted to go, and that as a last resort in certain situations, the use of force may not only be justified but may be required of us by every principle of right, of duty, and of true man-hood...
...education department gives them lectures on sex and marriage, shows them how to paint, takes them sightseeing, brings them together for dancing, singing. The department has distributed over 200,000 pamphlets, produced songs, radio programs, phonograph records, films. It runs a vacation resort, Unity House, in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where for as little as $19 a week union members may go to swim, sail, dance, play tennis, hear concerts...
Since 1931 Henry Doherty has picked up six Southern resort hotels, five clubs, and thousands of odd lots at postboom prices...